Amazing Chinese Characters (699) Break - 断（斷）

 The big seal script of character Break is

The left is silk bunches on weaving machine, the right is character Catty or Jin (Post 698), here is to Cut.  Cutting the silk is Break.

The small seal script of character Break is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Break is 

The left changed a lot, but still means the silk bunches, the right is character Catty or Jin, here it means cut.

The simplified song typeface of character Break is

I don't know where the left is from, not like common running or cursive scripts. Anyway, lost all pictography, and no any similarity to old scripts, but decreased strokes, which is not meaningful in the time people enter the character on computer with Chinese application easily. The benefit is disappeared, but the damage is done permanently.